Pick Only One #4: Guitar Player

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 -Radioswim- wrote:

 Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

 -Radioswim- wrote:

 Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

 Horizons wrote:

Just a random thing; I've been wondering, how much does John Frusciante factor in on TMV's albums?  Whenever I hear a solo or something, I don't know how to tell if it's John or Omar playing.

Don't get mad at me, that's not a runner up, just had a question about the guy.  Sticking to prog, mine is:

I think you should mix the series up a bit.  Probably do one more basic one and then start throwing in some more obscure stuff, and some fun ones as well.  "Favorite prog hairstyle," "Favorite Peter Gabriel double entendre..." stuff like that.

Well, maybe not the second one.

It's funny, I hear all the time that Omar is the brains behind the music of TMV, but his solo work is absolute rubish as far as I'm concerned. (I'm perhaps the biggest fan of TMV's first 3 albums)

Luciforms (from Octahedron) has one of the greatest guitar solos ever.

yeah don't get me wrong he's a great guitarist, and that particular solo is good. I've just never placed much emphasis on the idea of solos in general, I find they often detract from the overall quality of a given peice of music. I would rather gauge a guitarist's caliber with the impact he has on the musical direction. 
Again, don't misunderstand, I like solos as much as anyone I just wish they weren't so often in rock music in general  (specially in terms of guitarists)

Well, I don't think Omar overdoes the solos, at least on the albums I've heard (live performances are another matter entirely).  I've never thought solos tended to detract from music (unless it's a particularly bad one) but I would agree that it gets annoying when guitarists think they have to put a solo in every song *cough* Petrucci *cough*.